AMA submission to Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA) consultation on the mHealth applications Assessment Framework
The AMA provided a submission to the Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA) consultation on the mHealth applications Assessment Framework and commended ADHA for initiating this very important work for the future of digital health in Australia.
The AMA sees the evolving mHealth apps landscape as an area of opportunity for improved outcomes for clinicians and patients alike. For that reason the AMA called for the Assessment Framework to be established in such a way that is not tokenistic, but rather a deep study of apps safety, data security, and their reliability.
Key issues when developing the Framework for the AMA will be its ability to provide confidence to clinicians using the apps and recommending apps use to their patients, its capacity to balance the risks and benefits, alignment of the Framework with the TGA’s regulation of medical devices and testing of apps in clinical settings.
